Esai Morales
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in Bad Boys with Sean Penn and La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series American Family, the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. (2000–2002), portraying Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue (2001–2003), Joseph Adama in the science fiction series Caprica (2009–2010), Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series Ozark (2017), and the DC Comics supervillain Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in the superhero series Titans (2019).
Morales appeared as Gabriel, the main antagonist in the 2023 spy action film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opposite Tom Cruise, a role reprised in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in 2025.
Description above from the Wikipedia article about Esai Morales, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.368 |
| Birthday | 1962-10-01 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | 에사이 모레일스, Есай Моралес, ایسای مورالس, |
1994
Rapa Nui
6.4/145
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of...
Watch Now
Rapa Nui
2009
The Line
4.8/74
The story centers around veteran assassin Mark Shields as he tracks down, Pelon, the elusive head of the Salazar Crime Cartel. Through twists of fate,...
Watch Now
The Line
2006
Fast Food Nation
6.1/366
A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
Watch Now
Fast Food Nation
2021
Art of Love
3.3/10
A mysterious, erotic and haunting love story between a writer/professor at Puerto Rico's leading University and an aspiring artist from the immigrant...
Watch Now
Art of Love
1992
Freejack
5.399/318
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a...
Watch Now
Freejack
1994
In the Army Now
5.046/216
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman didn't really know what they were in for when they enlisted in the U.S. Army; they just wanted to get a job and make som...
Watch Now
In the Army Now
2002
Paid in Full
6.783/212
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he fi...
Watch Now
Paid in Full
1983
Bad Boys
7/273
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug deal...
Watch Now
Bad Boys
2003
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
5.3/46
Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are to...
Watch Now
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
1995
My Family
7.6/74
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los A...
Watch Now
My Family
1987
La Bamba
7.254/723
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his g...
Watch Now
La Bamba
2011
Gun Hill Road
5.9/23
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation th...
Watch Now
Gun Hill Road
2010
Cherry
6.3/81
Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned...
Watch Now
Cherry
2010
King of the Avenue
4.6/17
A drug dealer sells his soul to the devil to become the top drug dealer on the block.
Watch Now
King of the Avenue
2008
Kill Kill Faster Faster
4.8/10
Recently paroled after serving a long stretch for his wife's murder, Joey One-Way aligns himself with a producer who has optioned the play he wrote in...
Watch Now
Kill Kill Faster Faster
1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.7/23
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hort...
Watch Now
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1993
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
0/0
Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laundry? This one-hour special features dozens of space...
Watch Now
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
2023
Master Gardener
6.153/268
Narvel Roth is a meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowa...
Watch Now
Master Gardener
Minor Incidents
0/0
"Minor Incidents" is a historical drama based on the trial of Alejandro "El Sapo" Amestoy, highlighting the courtroom tensions and the complexity of h...
Watch Now
Minor Incidents
2006
The Virgin of Juarez
6.3/6
When a reporter travels to Juarez to cover the ongoing story of the mass murder of local working women, she uncovers the amazing story of "The Virgin...
Watch Now
The Virgin of Juarez
2011
We Have Your Husband
5.7/6
American-born Jayne Valseca, her husband Eduardo, the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on t...
Watch Now
We Have Your Husband
1998
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
6.7/11
Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same...
Watch Now
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
1996
Death in Granada
5.7/16
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of t...
Watch Now
Death in Granada
2012
Seattle Superstorm
4.8/46
An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to affect the local weather, ultimately threatening the whole world.
Watch Now
Seattle Superstorm
2004
Sudbury
8/2
A family of witches -- sisters Sally and Gillian, their aunts Jet and Frances, and Sally's daughters Antonia and Kylie -- struggle with the blessing a...
Watch Now
Sudbury
1996
Dog Watch
5.8/11
A San Francisco detective (Elliott) goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to...
Watch Now
Dog Watch
2012
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
5.2/132
Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continu...
Watch Now
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
2007
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
0/0
A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food Natio...
Watch Now
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
1995
Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
9/1
Tony is framed by Claremont for a murder he didn't commit. He is sent to prison but Claremont promises him freedom if he can find Allie in the prison...
Watch Now
Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1992
Ultraviolet
2.5/2
A park ranger and his lover have heated encounters with a dangerous man in Death Valley.
Watch Now
Ultraviolet
2005
Once Upon a Wedding
3.8/8
A week before her marriage, a woman injures a man in a car accident. As she helps nurse him back to health, she starts to doubt the course her life is...
Watch Now
Once Upon a Wedding
1997
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
0/0
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared after his arrest by th...
Watch Now
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
2000
Doomsday Man
5.5/2
After his wife is killed researching a deadly virus, a doctor, out of anger and guilt, infects himself with the virus and threatens the world.
Watch Now
Doomsday Man
1999
Southern Cross
2/2
A mining businessman gets involved in crimes and murderers as he flees from another businessman who plans to dump nuclear waste illegally in abandoned...
Watch Now
Southern Cross
1996
Scorpion Spring
7.2/3
On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...
Watch Now
Scorpion Spring
2009
Celebrity Habla
0/0
See what celebrated Latino actors, newsmakers and a musical legend have to say about being Latino in the U.S. in this sixth installment in the award-w...
Watch Now
Celebrity Habla
2014
Journey of a Female Comic
6.8/4
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
Watch Now
Journey of a Female Comic
2015
Spare Parts
7.2/206
With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set the...
Watch Now
Spare Parts
Cottonmouth
0/0
When Ed Dantes is framed and condemned to the tortures of a territorial prison in the 1895, he must learn the ways of the outlaw to escape and exact h...
Watch Now
Cottonmouth
2014
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
6.2/293
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost o...
Watch Now
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
2006
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens
2.6/7
A self-proclaimed dating expert tries to get his best friend, who lost his wife two years earlier, back into the dating scene, with disastrous results...
Watch Now
How to Go Out on a Date in Queens
1998
Circle of Deceit
3/2
A woman finds out that her husband has been cheating on her and, as she tries to get custody of her son, events spiral out of control, leading to blac...
Watch Now
Circle of Deceit
2024
Crescent City
6/61
When a ruthless serial killer terrorizes a small Southern town, everyone becomes a suspect -- including local authorities. As the body count rises and...
Watch Now
Crescent City
2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
0/0
After escaping a calamitous train crash, Ethan realizes The Entity is stashed aboard an old Russian submarine, but a foe from his past named Gabriel i...
Watch Now
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2014
Give Me Shelter
2/1
Give Me Shelter is a documentary to raise awareness for important animal issues around the world. This film uncovers the most prevalent issues in the...
Watch Now
Give Me Shelter
1994
Don't Do It
5.5/2
Story about three youthful couples in contemporary Los Angeles.
Watch Now
Don't Do It
2000
American Virgin
3.7/11
When your father is a pornographer, what can you do to shock him? If you're Katrina Bartalotti, you announce that you're going to lose your virginity...
Watch Now
American Virgin
2016
Never Back Down: No Surrender
7/473
Picking up after the events of Never Back Down 2, former MMA champion Case Walker is on the comeback trail to become champion once again.
Watch Now
Never Back Down: No Surrender
2015
Playin' for Love
5/2
Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But that’s a...
Watch Now
Playin' for Love
1990
Naked Tango
6.3/15
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
Watch Now
Naked Tango
2005
American Fusion
5.5/2
Yvonne is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her larg...
Watch Now
American Fusion
1995
Somos un solo pueblo
0/0
Presents a bit of the history of the migration of our people, people who came out opening new horizons and looking for new destinations. During that a...
Watch Now
Somos un solo pueblo
2016
Casa Vita
6.9/23
A baseball player finds unexpected happiness with a woman who works in his favorite restaurant.
Watch Now
Casa Vita
1996
The Real Thing
6.7/3
Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after...
Watch Now
The Real Thing
2013
Saving Westbrook High
6/2
A diverse community, an ambitious newly-appointed principal and a handful of committed teachers come together to save a once popular suburban school i...
Watch Now
Saving Westbrook High
2018
Love and Other Stunts
0/0
Gary Kent was the king of B movies in the Sixties and Seventies, working for indie directors from Richard Rush to Ray Dennis Stickler to Al Adamson, b...
Watch Now
Love and Other Stunts
1982
Forty Deuce
5.3/6
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
Watch Now
Forty Deuce
2021
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
7.1/43
The Oscar nominated actor best known for his role of Mr. Miyagi, left behind a painfully revealing autobiographical record of his much-too-brief time...
Watch Now
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
2005
Lethal Seduction
2.8/7
Miranda Wells is an attorney with a sideline in immigration fraud and murder. Miranda's assistant, Carla, is unaware of her criminal activities. Rick...
Watch Now
Lethal Seduction
2000
A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story
5/1
Based on the true headline-generating story of the five-year-old Cuban boy who is the sole survivor of a refugee boat that sunk in a storm on its way...
Watch Now
A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story
2017
Halfway There
2/1
Jimmy Bishop runs a sober living facility and is forced to take in his wealthy alcoholic mother as a client.
Watch Now
Halfway There
2018
SuperFly
6.8/381
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole opera...
Watch Now
SuperFly
2020
The Wall of Mexico
4.714/7
A young white handyman, hired by a wealthy Mexican-American family to upkeep their ranch, finds himself caught between disgruntled locals and the fami...
Watch Now
The Wall of Mexico
2019
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
0/0
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the...
Watch Now
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
Imprisoned
5.409/11
Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him...
Watch Now
Imprisoned
1985
Rainy Day Friends
0/0
A tough street kid from the L.A. barrios is discovered during an examination to have stomach tumors. During his hospitalization, he must learn to cope...
Watch Now
Rainy Day Friends
1987
The Principal
6.474/289
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school...
Watch Now
The Principal
1996
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
7.5/2
Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor.
Watch Now
Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story
2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
7.5/4075
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it...
Watch Now
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
2020
Find Your Groove
10/1
In this uplifitng documentary, stars and musicians from across the industry speak to the power and importance of music in society. Here we examine how...
Watch Now
Find Your Groove
2022
The Latin from Manhattan
9/1
Follows the wild, exhilarating life of legendary adult film icon Vanessa Del Rio, set against the backdrop of organized crime-controlled Times Square...
Watch Now
The Latin from Manhattan
1994
The Burning Season
6.2/21
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their par...
Watch Now
The Burning Season
2011
17th Precinct
4/1
In a modern world where magic supplanted science, the unaired pilot featured two non-intersecting stories: the death of a city executive at the hands...
Watch Now
17th Precinct
2007
The Cure
10/2
A group of medical activists get care to those who need it most, by any means necessary.
Watch Now
The Cure
2021
Senior Moment
5.7/20
After drag racing his vintage convertible around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot loses his license. Forced to take public transportation, he m...
Watch Now
Senior Moment
War Machine
0/0
In the final 24 hours of the world’s toughest selection process, a team of Army Rangers encounters a threat beyond its imagination.
Watch Now
War Machine
So Much For Love
0/0
Sam Davies, a trust fund supported bon vivant and bachelor, who is living his best life – right up until the day he turns 35. Much to his horror, that...
Watch Now